The students will be creating a video on Animoto.com on a school related topic of their choice. Some of the choices so far have been Earth Day, Breast Cancer Awareness, Space, Holocaust and Discrimination. These videos will be shared when completed.

Yesterday the students started their first project. They are creating online posters using glogster.com. They will be adding pictures of their favorite things on their posters and I will be posting them here when they are finished!

This week we learned how to find valid and credible resources. We had to choose an African-American Icon and find three sites about him/her. We then had to determine whether or not they were credible by finding the author and last date updated. We also learned that ask.com, answers.com, and wikipedia are not credible sources because anyone can edit the information on those sites.

The students learned how to program their robots to go forward, backward, there and back, go forward for 100 cm, make a swing turn, make a left turn, make a point turn, and go forward, turn around and come back. The students then had to program their robots to move around the perimeter of the classroom tables. They did a great job and really enjoyed it! Pictures and video to follow!